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As Occupy Wall Street has gone from an obscure protest covered only on blogs and social media to a national phenomenon, the apparent parallels between the issues it is raising and the issues we have been raising in health care grows.
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I’ve realized that these past posts, when integrated for an upcoming investigation, tell a frightening story that is probably not uncommon in hospitals today. They form a sort of Diary of Death by EHR.
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Case 1. Tumult
October 5, 2011
New York Times
Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps
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We just discussed how leaders of big health care corporations with histories of ethical and legal missteps want to export our supposedly “wonderful technology, wonderful approaches” to the rest of the world. A story on the Huffington Post showed how big health care corporations, partnering with the US government, have already been doing that with not very pretty results. The article discussed two cases, connected by a single person who transited the revolving door from government to the pharmaceutical industry and then back to government.
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I have the answer to these cutbacks of pubic health services.
Let’s spend tens or even better, hundreds of billions of dollars more on experimental healthcare IT.
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Last week, an article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune suggested that our US corporate health care giants think they are doing such a good job they want to export the “world’s best health care system” overseas:
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An MSNBC story summarized some new data about how at least a particular subset of the rich can get different health care from you and me:
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At my Sept. 22, 2011 post “NPfIT Programme goes PfffT” I wrote about the 12.7bn National Programme for IT in the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK being ended after years of delays, technical difficulties, contractual disputes and rising costs. I had predicted this for years.
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